[gentoo-user] major problem involving nvidia drivers, gnome and x

2016-03-28 Thread covici
Hi. I normally do updates approximately monthly and I use the gnome overlay, so I get the latest gnome. I am also using ~amd64 version of gentoo. Now, this time when I went from version 4.1.17 to 4.1.20 kernel and did my monthly update at the same time, two things happened. On the 4.1.17 kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] Xscreensaver 3D modules don't work

2016-03-28 Thread Philip Webb
160328 Corbin wrote: > On 03/28/2016 02:09 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> Since I set up the system in my new machine in Oct 2015 , >> the 3D modules in Xscreensaver (now 5.34) have refused to run ; >> the rest of Xscreensaver is working as advertised. >> I did drop Perl support, but that seems to be re

[gentoo-user] Optimum sound settings for QEMU VM?

2016-03-28 Thread waltdnes
I'm involved in beta testing Gstreamer 1.x support for HTML5 under Pale Moon (a Firefox fork). So far so good; it works. I use a QEMU VM for some building and testing. Things work great on a real physical machine, but audio absolutely sucks in the QEMU VM. I get an annoying warble-stutter and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DRM Problem : Radeon HD 7670M

2016-03-28 Thread JingYuan Chen
James, Thanks for your response and suggestion ! Rich0's kernel crash dump page is interesting to me. I think that I could find some useful information in it. I used Gentoo Live DVD to install Gentoo into my laptop. I will use it to check VGA configuration again this weekend. Thank you ! Reg

Re: [gentoo-user] DRM Problem : Radeon HD 7670M

2016-03-28 Thread JingYuan Chen
Mick, Thanks for your response and suggestion ! When compiled the new kernel, there was no error message. I can use the new kernel to boot my laptop successfully. So that I am sure that the relative firmware filenames I gave are correct. I will try another kernel version or Evergreen firmware th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted cell 2 gentoo

2016-03-28 Thread covici
Not if you use smtp with port 587 and not use plain login options. Max R.D. Parmer wrote: > The recipients mail server could still see the message in plaintext. > > If you are concerned your correspondent's mail server might be used to > try to read their messages then another layer of encrypti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted cell 2 gentoo

2016-03-28 Thread Max R.D. Parmer
The recipients mail server could still see the message in plaintext. If you are concerned your correspondent's mail server might be used to try to read their messages then another layer of encryption is needed that only the recipient themselves can decrypt and that would be GPG/PGP. It depends on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted cell 2 gentoo

2016-03-28 Thread covici
If you have your own mta and use imap-s won't that do it? Max R.D. Parmer wrote: > Ahh, OK. So secure communications between all these clients. > > The two big players for client-side encryption for email or messaging > data would be GPG and OTR; for VoIP you would want to look into ZRTP. > The

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted cell 2 gentoo

2016-03-28 Thread wabenbau
James wrote: > Hello, > > I've been googling for some guides on setting up encrypted mail > on a gentoo system and specifically how you would set up the apple > or android phone on the other end. Lots to read. Guidance on the > applications (both cell phone and the gentoo workstations. I guess >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted cell 2 gentoo

2016-03-28 Thread Mick
On Monday 28 Mar 2016 10:54:49 Max R.D. Parmer wrote: > I think the paper on Intel issues Mick is referring to is the one I > linked not too long ago: > http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf Yes, here's the M/L thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/288720

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted cell 2 gentoo

2016-03-28 Thread Max R.D. Parmer
I think the paper on Intel issues Mick is referring to is the one I linked not too long ago: http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf It seems like you're looking for something like the EFF's "surveillance self-defense"[1] site but with some stuff specific to Gentoo. [1]: https

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted cell 2 gentoo

2016-03-28 Thread James
Mick gmail.com> writes: > > Ahh, OK. So secure communications between all these clients. > > The two big players for client-side encryption for email or messaging > > data would be GPG and OTR; Good 2 know. I'll keep searching for docs. > Also S/MIME encryption of the email message body using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted cell 2 gentoo

2016-03-28 Thread Mick
On Monday 28 Mar 2016 09:26:54 Max R.D. Parmer wrote: > Ahh, OK. So secure communications between all these clients. > > The two big players for client-side encryption for email or messaging > data would be GPG and OTR; Also S/MIME encryption of the email message body using SSL certificates ach

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted cell 2 gentoo

2016-03-28 Thread Max R.D. Parmer
Ahh, OK. So secure communications between all these clients. The two big players for client-side encryption for email or messaging data would be GPG and OTR; for VoIP you would want to look into ZRTP. There are several clients that support these three protocols on all the platforms you've listed (

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted cell 2 gentoo

2016-03-28 Thread James
Max R.D. Parmer trystero.is> writes: > Do I understand correctly that you're looking to set up a Gentoo server > as a "hub" from which you can retrieve your mail using any of your > client systems? Not really. Yes that has to work but... What I want to read up on and test is encrypted (secur

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted cell 2 gentoo

2016-03-28 Thread Max R.D. Parmer
Do I understand correctly that you're looking to set up a Gentoo server as a "hub" from which you can retrieve your mail using any of your client systems? If I understood correctly, interoperability should be easy because mostly it comes down to IMAP/SMTP/POP3 and support for those protocols is pr

[gentoo-user] Encrypted cell 2 gentoo

2016-03-28 Thread James
Hello, I've been googling for some guides on setting up encrypted mail on a gentoo system and specifically how you would set up the apple or android phone on the other end. Lots to read. Guidance on the applications (both cell phone and the gentoo workstations. I guess that inter-operability is wh

Re: [gentoo-user] New Laptop Will Be Here in Few Days

2016-03-28 Thread Lee
Thanks so much! On Mar 28, 2016 1:37 AM, "Adam Carter" wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Lee wrote: > >> Thanks! >> > FWIW i also used ~amd64 gcc, and; > CFLAGS="-march=broadwell -O2 -pipe" > VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" > CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4

Re: [gentoo-user] The Project Begins!

2016-03-28 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/27/2016 01:10 AM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > > Okay. Thanks for that information. Is there a more descriptive version of > the twenty USE flags I should use for Apache, because the index is rather > vague. I pulled up the wiki page, clicked on a link that was attached to one > of the USE flags,

Re: [gentoo-user] Xscreensaver 3D modules don't work

2016-03-28 Thread Corbin
On 03/28/2016 02:09 AM, Philip Webb wrote: Since I set up the system in my new machine in Oct 2015 , the 3D modules in Xscreensaver (now 5.34) have refused to run ; the rest of Xscreensaver is working as advertised. I did drop Perl support, but that seems to be related to I/net use & shows no

Re: [gentoo-user] New Laptop Will Be Here in Few Days

2016-03-28 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Lee wrote: > Thanks! > FWIW i also used ~amd64 gcc, and; CFLAGS="-march=broadwell -O2 -pipe" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3"

[gentoo-user] Xscreensaver 3D modules don't work

2016-03-28 Thread Philip Webb
Since I set up the system in my new machine in Oct 2015 , the 3D modules in Xscreensaver (now 5.34) have refused to run ; the rest of Xscreensaver is working as advertised. I did drop Perl support, but that seems to be related to I/net use & shows no sign of relating to 3D rendering. I have the '